Hi JCarter: The "INTERACTIVE" account is not a real user account, it's a built-in well-known SID account. You can just click Add for a new permission, type in "interactive", click Check Names, and it should work. If you need to automate this across a large number of machines, I belive these permissions are just registry key permissions (or in the registry otherwise), so you could try tracking the key path down via Bing/Google or using a tool like Sysinternals Process Monitor. An .INF security template could then be used to assign the designed permissions (assuming they are reg key permissions that is). If the permissions are not reg key permissions, then again Process Monitor can help track down how they are implemented. In fact, a quick search brings this up: http://unlockpowershell.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/script-remote-dcom-wmi-access-for-a-domain-user/ Hope this helps!

Hi Elle, Thank you for the response. You have given some good pointers to look into. But I became so uneasy before your response that I had to wipe out and started over... and was able to restore ... Thanks though...